He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready To drop bombs but he keeps on forgetting What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud He opens his mouth but the words won't come out He's choking, how? Everybody's joking now The clock's run out, time's up, over - blaow

Lyric Meaning

This verse documents Jimmy “B-Rabbit” Smith’s first trip to The Shelter for a rap battle. He had already puked on himself due to nerves before the battle started, and the hostile, predominantly black environment that he was rapping in caused him to completely “choke” — he couldn’t come up with a single bar.

Note that Em/Rabbit says “he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down”. The common perception is that freestyles come entirely off the top of the head, but most battlers jot down a few punch lines to fall back on for moments like this. But Rabbit is too shook to even recite his pre-written lines.